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Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa
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Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa Paperback - 2017

by John Abbott


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  • Title Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa
  • Author John Abbott
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 500
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2017
  • ISBN 9781138552111 / 1138552119
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Urban Studies
  • Dewey Decimal Code 307.141

About the author

John Abbott is an international consultant specialising in the management of urban infrastructure, most recently with the government of Ethiopia. Over his career he has worked in local government, NGOs, the private sector and academia, where he was Professor of Urban Engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Paperback / softback. New. This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another, it explores the changing paradigms of urban development through the fundamental question of how decisions are made. With a focus on Africa's fast-growing secondary towns, where 70 per cent of the urban population live, the book explains how urban infrastructure provides the key to the relationship between economic development and social equity, through the mediation of natural resources. Adopting this view enables investment to be channelled more effectively to provide the engine for economic growth, while providing equitable services for all residents. At the same time, the mediation of resource flows integrates the metabolism of the city into the wider ecosystem. This vision leads to a new… Read More
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